People's Democratic Party

The People's Democratic Party (; abbreviated NDP) is a political party in Ukraine established on 24 February 1996. It was registered with the Ministry of Justice on 30 May 1996. The party is Russophone. History The People's Democratic Party was established at its constituent congress in Kyiv. The party was created through a merger of three political parties (The Party of Democratic Revival of Ukraine, the Toiling Congress of Ukraine, and the Union of Support for Republic of Crimea), two public organizations (The Union of Students of Ukraine and the New Wave) and two political clubs (New Ukraine and the Association of Young Ukrainian Politicians and Political Scientists). Anatoliy Matviyenko was elected party chairman. At the 1998 Ukrainian parliamentary election, the party gained 5% of the votes and 28 seats in the Verkhovna Rada. At the time of the election, the party's key member, Valeriy Pustovoitenko, was Prime Minister of Ukraine. Pustovoitenko became the party's leader in May 1999 until April 2006. In September 2001, the (MBR) was merged into the party. At the parliamentary elections in 2002, the party was part of the For United Ukraine alliance, the alliance won 11.77% of the popular vote and a total of 102 out of 450 seats in the Verkhovna Rada.